Just as a note for people with Optimus graphics cards - I have a Dell XPS 15 l502x with a NVIDIA GT 540M and it works well with the http://suwako.nomanga.net/ repos. I followed the instructions on the website and it works fine. I am running Sid though, so I can't verify on LMDE Latest.

I am a recent migrant from Windows to LM13(64-bit) Mate. I have been facing a problem with Dual Monitor for the past 7-8 days. I have tried a lot of stuff that I got from various forums and by googling, however none helped.

On boot, the login screen appears on the Laptop screen. After logging in, the External Monitor is considered as the Primary screen since the panel appears in the External Screen, however the desktop icons appear on the Laptop screen.

and choose my Laptop screen to be put off, both screen turn black for about 2 seconds and then only the Laptop screen has the background image with the desktop icons disappeared and the neither the mouse nor the keyboard responds. So I have to do a hard reset.

Also when I select "Separate X Screen" and click on "Apply". The Laptop screen goes black and the External Monitor has the background image in the top half of the screen and the bottom half is black. It looks like the Laptop settings are imposed on the External Monitor. Also neither the mouse nor the keyboard responds. So I have to do a hard reset.

I ended up with an interrupted upgrade to LMDE (KDE) UP6 and ultimately got a terminal login prompt once I got things upgraded but had managed to get things fixed. Yesterday I finally remembered to edit my /etc/X11/xorg.conf to add

to get rid of the Nvidia splash but when I fired up my laptop this am I was again dumped to the terminal login prompt. I had put the code at the end of the "Section 'Device' " section of the file, but is that the right way to disable the splash on LMDE? According to the Nvidia X Server Settings app I'm running a Quadro NVS 140M graphics chip on my lenovo T61.

Thanks, man. Worked for me, except I had to install without DKMS- failed to build. Anyone know how to install the downloaded driver (from Nvidia, not from the repo) with DKMS support? I'm guessing my X will be broken at the next kernel update.

zerozero wrote:the drivers downloaded and installed directly from nvidia are not built with dkms support so, yes, you'll have to reinstall the driver with every kernel update.

During installation we're presented with an option to build with DKMS, it just fails on my system (LMDE 1204 64bit), so I expect it should be doable. I'm going to do some research- was just hoping someone here may have already solved this issue.

Yeah I have (I think) the source and header files installed. Tried again with DKMS- still no go so, reinstalled without DKMS and now I have no direct rendering support. Weird... this was with the Beta 313.* driver BTW. Going back to the 304.* driver in the repo for now, and I'll check the install logs and see if I can figure out what's going on. It would be nice to be able to install the latest Nvidia drivers and have them not break after every kernel update.

@losst:i can't tell you if that is a problem with the latest 313.x drivers, with the way they are being installed or elsewhere; i use the stock 304.x and that one serves all my needs (plus with dkms support i have to worry less about X breakages, but they also happen)

@Dansmxi has an option to (re)install the latest driver after every kernel update

zerozero wrote:@losst:i can't tell you if that is a problem with the latest 313.x drivers, with the way they are being installed or elsewhere; i use the stock 304.x and that one serves all my needs (plus with dkms support i have to worry less about X breakages, but they also happen)

@Dansmxi has an option to (re)install the latest driver after every kernel update

310.* fails to build with DKMS as well- keep getting an error stating something like "kernel building is not necessary". smxi seems like a viable option. Does smxi automatically rebuild the driver w/DKMS after kernel updates, or does this have to be done manually/scripted? Thanks for the assistance, guys.